Thomas Blanton, the esteemed director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University described Washington’s hyper-reaction to Wikileaks’ transmission of information to some major media in various countries as “Wikimania.”

In testimony before the House Judiciary Committee last Thursday, Blanton urged the Justice Department to cool it. Wikileaks and newspapers like The New Yorks Times and London’s Guardian, he said, are publishers protected by the First Amendment. The disclosures are the first small installment of a predicted much larger forthcoming trove of non-public information from both governments and global corporations. …

The people running our lives are simply berserk. The hirelings are pathetic. Who can have any shred of respect for any of this ??

Consider what Harvard Law Professor Jack Goldsmith, who was head of the Office of Legal Counsel in George W. Bush’s Justice Department just wrote:

“In Obama’s Wars, Bob Woodward, with the obvious assistance of many top Obama administration officials, disclosed many details about top secret programs, code names, documents, meetings, and the like. I have a hard time squaring the anger the government is directing towards Wikileaks with its top officials openly violating classification rules and opportunistically revealing without authorization top secret information.”

On the other hand, if Mr. Holder goes the narrow route to obtain an indictment of Mr. Assange, he will risk a public relations debacle by vindictively displaying prosecutorial abuse (i.e. fixing the law around the enforcement bias.) Double standards have no place in the Justice Department. …

That last line is a bit of a dissemble. I don’t think the DoJ has any trouble at all with double standards. In fact, double standards seem to have a long standing seat at the table. I would say that double standards sits on a lovely, soft, down filled love seat.

And last, I doubt any of us can feign surprise….

Over-reaction by the Obama administration could lead to censoring the Internet, undermining Secretary Clinton’s Internet Freedom initiative, which criticized China’s controls and lauded hacktivism in that country, and divert attention from the massive over classification of documents by the Executive Branch.

A full throttle attack on Wikileaks is what the government distracters want in order to take away the spotlight of the disclosures on their misdeeds, their waste and their construction of an authoritarian corporate state.

Professor and ex-Bushite Jack Goldsmith summed up his thoughts this way: “The best thing to do….would be to ignore Assange and fix the secrecy system so this does not happen again.”

That presumably is some of what Peter Zatko and his crew are now trying to do at the Pentagon’s famed DARPA unit. That secret initiative may ironically undermine the First Amendment should they succeed too much in hamstringing the Internet earlier advanced by that same Pentagon unit.

The Imperial State, with 30% of its people mired in generational poverty and hunger, sails on.

Well,
In LAST summer’sBigBro service announcement out of WaPo…LOL, that’s what alot of this is really, alongside the tids speaking of WOW – AWESOME POWERFUL SHIT, MAN…etc. <— Yes, there is a pattern emerging…

It’s not only the number of buildings that suggests the size and cost of this expansion, it’s also what is inside: banks of television monitors. “Escort-required” badges. X-ray machines and lockers to store cellphones and pagers. Keypad door locks that open special rooms encased in metal or permanent dry wall, impenetrable to eavesdropping tools and protected by alarms and a security force capable of responding within 15 minutes. Every one of these buildings has at least one of these rooms, known as a SCIF, for sensitive compartmented information facility. Some are as small as a closet; others are four times the size of a football field.

SCIF size has become a measure of status in Top Secret America, or at least in the Washington region of it. “In D.C., everyone talks SCIF, SCIF, SCIF,” said Bruce Paquin, who moved to Florida from the Washington region several years ago to start a SCIF construction business. “They’ve got the penis envy thing going. You can’t be a big boy unless you’re a three-letter agency and you have a big SCIF.”

SCIFs are not the only must-have items people pay attention to. Command centers, internal television networks, video walls, armored SUVs and personal security guards have also become the bling of national security.

“You can’t find a four-star general without a security detail,” said one three-star general now posted in Washington after years abroad. “Fear has caused everyone to have stuff. Then comes, ‘If he has one, then I have to have one.’ It’s become a status symbol.”

Yeh good luck with all that shit.The Threat is already in the building, fellahs.

Among the most important people inside the SCIFs are the low-paid employees carrying their lunches to work to save money. They are the analysts, the 20- and 30-year-olds making $41,000 to $65,000 a year, whose job is at the core of everything Top Secret America tries to do.

Soooo not smart to freeze Fed Wages. Not in the Gub, that MIC~feeding family, friend, and lover entwined system.

And tho obviously so… that lower echelon security apparatchiks are less vulnerable to budget cuts than your average meat inspeactor,
and internally the spook sevice personell get a lot of attaboys and unsung hero crap…they are socialized within the Outrageous Greed and Rape Club, where Covet Thy , however covertly, ….IS …the code.

Welp. It’s not gonna end well,

At its best, analysis melds cultural understanding with snippets of conversations, coded dialogue, anonymous tips, even scraps of trash, turning them into clues that lead to individuals and groups trying to harm the United States.

… as even retailers have figured out that shoplifters are hardly the threat that their workers are…

Can they really find enough robots, human or otherwise, to reliably function without regard to the network they indeed are connected to? Anyone think they can firewall their human organization? Are underlings really immune from their upperty ups from doing What. They. Do?

That is, in increasingly desperate American /
Tribe of Israel fashano :
Fucking over everyone within reach.

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said on Tuesday that it would require health insurance companies to disclose and justify any increases of 10 percent or more in the premiums they charge next year.

How many hundreds of Billions did they snag? So they give another pennies on the dollar fine for our Kleptocrats to momentarily hold before looting it as well.

Its waaaay past laughing gas land …
how Obama is such a fucking Tom.

Speaking of Toms, CNBC has some Tom named Roger Ferguson opining how we need to sacrifice and save and that he doubts we will see riots in the streets that ARE donchaknow becoming an increasing concern in Europe.

Fuck you, Roger.
Everybody knows the Black Buttplug market is about to pop.

that wasn’t at all, a comment against women aborting babies who have absolutely no chance to live a decent life in the cesspool that envelopes all of us,……….most particularly, when they didn’t want, nor asked, to be molested, in the first place …

it seems every time my mom orders meds she need immediately, the order is fucked up.

The last time it was a non generic she needed (she can’t take many generics, as they’re loaded with fillers that fuck with her ….(and who really knows as to whether the name brand manufacturer doesn’t also make a ton off the generics?)). The fuckers slapped a name brand label over a generic, ….oh yes, they did….as if she couldn’t see……

The Obama administration is preparing an executive order that would formalize indefinite detention without trial for some detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but allow those detainees and their lawyers to challenge the basis for continued incarceration, U.S. officials said.

Under the system established by the previous administration, Guantanamo detainees could go before military review panels with “personal representatives,” military officers who could explain the process but not act as lawyers. The system envisioned under the executive order now being finalized would be more adversarial and would allow detainees to challenge their incarceration periodically, possibly every year.

Campaign Obama:

Barack Obama and Joe Biden know that our greatest tool in advancing democracy is our own example. This asset, however, has been severely damaged in recent years, especially by . . . detention without charges at Guantanamo. . . . Barack Obama and Joe Biden will hold the United States to the same standards we demand of others. That means . . . ending extraordinary rendition and indefinite detentions; restoring habeas corpus; and closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.

1) Wars based on lies
2) The Nuremberg principles
3)Torture as a matter of policy and practice 4)Wars where the majority of casualties are civilian noncombatants
5) Wars initiated and waged in violation of US and international law
6) Wars and militarism which financially, politically, socially, morally, economically bankrupt the nation which perpetuates them. In short, just what and where does he draw any lines, or is he just into wearing uniforms in an authoritarian institution?

However over the past couple of days, I have read the reports surrounding the discharge of Lt. Dan Choi.

Yesterday, I read the article, “Lt. Dan Choi Discharged- Why Won’t He Admit It?” In that article, Dan was asked to explain why he had not made his June 29th discharge public for nearly a month.

After reading the piece, it seemed rather odd to me that a month had gone by and Dan had not made his discharge public. I too thought, for the man who has become the face of DADT repeal, letting people know about an event like his discharge under DADT should have been a pretty important event to Dan as well. As an activist why did he not immediately inform the LGBT community, all who have invested in his journey and had eyes on his every move.

So while not my beat, I began to look for my own answers. I first asked Dr. Brooks what was up with all of this?

She told me she thought, in her opinion, Choi had probably turned “pro” and the reason for not saying anything about the discharge might stem from the fact the uniform was a pretty good prop and to wear the uniform after you are discharged, is a federal crime. She also told me she has been trying to get him to clear up some questions she had about financial issues for better then a month.

So far I’ve not been able to confirm this, but if this is true, as a fellow activist, I feel that all the good of bringing attention to DADT and its repeal to the public attention should not have this kind of quid pro quo attached to it.

I also have to think, that if this is true, it takes Dan Choi out of the realm of pure activist, could this mean he has taken himself down the road of profit maker for activism? If he is charging to be a motivational speaker, he must come clean to the community and separate his DADT activities from his speaking career quest. He owes us that! But would that serve a profit making quest?

I am disturbed by these possible developments and would like to invite Dan to show some accountability to our community.

PHOENIX — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix stripped a major hospital of its affiliation with the church Tuesday because of a surgery that ended a woman’s pregnancy to save her life.

Bishop Thomas Olmsted called the 2009 procedure an abortion and said St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center – recognized internationally for its neurology and neurosurgery practices – violated ethical and religious directives of the national Conference of Catholic Bishops.

“In the decision to abort, the equal dignity of mother and her baby were not both upheld,” Olmsted said at a news conference announcing the decision. “The mother had a disease that needed to be treated. But instead of treating the disease, St. Joseph’s medical staff and ethics committee decided that the healthy, 11-week-old baby should be directly killed.”

Linda Hunt, president of St. Joseph’s, said doctors performed a necessary procedure on a patient who was getting worse by the minute and was in imminent danger of death.

“If we are presented with a situation in which a pregnancy threatens a woman’s life, our first priority is to save both patients. If that is not possible, we will always save the life we can save, and that is what we did in this case,” Hunt said. “Morally, ethically, and legally, we simply cannot stand by and let someone die whose life we might be able to save.”

St. Joseph’s does not receive direct funding from the church, but in addition to losing its Catholic endorsement, the 697-bed hospital will no longer be able to celebrate Mass and must remove the Blessed Sacrament from its chapel.

The esteemed Rabbi Victor Koltun ..
of Brooklyn NY AND Bayville NJ ,
(Hello There Jewish Community in DEAL!}
Jersey home of some the most creative Rabbinical interpretations of the Torah not to mention Israeli Fried Kidneys…

will I end up on a list if I write that every once in a while (though far too often, to my mind …I despise violence), it is a good thing, I don’t own a 5 gallon gas can? …although I’ve always been conflicted that Hackman didn’t light that flame in a far more elite, mahogany halled, ‘gathering of RATS’ …..

Hackman lit up a drug infested, addict haunt; …for the most part I really liked that movie, …and on his ‘character’s’ behalf …I should’ve balanced, with the fact that his ‘character’ was fairly well tweaked, beyond human bearability, when he lit that match ……

Not that it really matters… but it was quite a moment. Not mentioned is that John Brennan tried to cover for Clapper. But his useless white ass was still hanging out there…:lol:

TOP TALKER – “Clapper Unaware of 12 Terror Arrests in London: ABC’s Diane Sawyer sat down with three of the President’s top national security officials … Director [of National Intelligence James R.] Clapper [Jr.], who briefs the president daily on the nation’s security, appeared to be unfamiliar with the events in London. ‘I’m really surprised you didn’t know about London,’ Sawyer told Clapper. ‘Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t,’ he replied.

After the interview, Clapper’s office declined to say whether he knew about the specific disrupted plot but issued a statement:

‘The question about this specific news development was ambiguous. The DNI’s knowledge of the threat streams in Europe is profound and multi-dimensional, and any suggestion otherwise is inaccurate.’ Story http://abcn.ws/fwc1W3 Video http://abcn.ws/fEcsAE

–Flashback, AP NewsAlert, 3:24 a.m. Monday, 12 hours before the interview, conducted at 3:45 p.m. Monday in the EEOB: “British police say 12 men arrested in 3 cities over suspected UK terrorism plot.” Was also the lead of “Good Morning America.”

“Director Clapper had not yet been briefed on the arrests in the United Kingdom at the time of this interview taping,” said ODNI spokeswoman Jamie Smith in a statement, according to ABC News.

Clapper, she explained, had been “working throughout the day on important intelligence matters, including monitoring military and political developments on the Korean peninsula, providing answers to questions concerning the ratification of the START nuclear treaty and other classified issues. He wasn’t immediately briefed on London because it didn’t appear to have a homeland nexus and there was no immediate action by the DNI required. Nevertheless, he should have been briefed on the arrests, and steps have been taken to ensure that he is in the future. The intelligence community as a whole was fully aware of this development and tracking it closely.”

…welp…the ‘man’ was concentrated on us enemies within the country …you know…. parents feeding their fodder fatty food an’ stuff …the wimmins wit da big boobs wearin those wire rimmed bras to deliberately torture the males what can’t help but want to rape them as those bitches pass through the scanners and feelups, not wanting to share those titties …..The US has far more important criminals to deal with ……

way cool brinn! ….I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you,… that Texas doesn’t require an “Oath to the State,” which California demands. as of recent (though, apparently it has been on the ‘Cali Books’ for quite some time), in order to teach in public schools …..

So.

At the age of 86, Noam Chomsky remains as active as ever in his work as a world-renowned political dissident and pioneering linguist. He has also opened a new chapter in his life, recently celebrating a one-year anniversary with his new wife, Valeria Wasserman Chomsky, his second marriage. Chomsky discusses the joys of newfound love and why it is a "pri […]

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Following its election in January on a pledge to confront the austerity program that's decimated Greece's economy, the Syriza government has faced a major pushback from international creditors led by Germany. Days after Greece secured a four-month extension to a loan package in exchange for new conditions on its spending, Noam Chomsky says the Euro […]

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At the annual American-Israel Public Affairs Committee conference, speakers advanced Iran as an existential threat and sought to downplay differences between Israel and the US while demonstrators were arrested outside

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday the chamber was moving toward debate on a bill that would require President Barack Obama to submit any final nuclear deal with Iran for Congress' approval.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday against accepting a nuclear deal with Iran that would be a "countdown to a potential nuclear nightmare" by a country that "will always be an enemy of America".

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's advisers would recommend he veto a Senate resolution to overturn recent National Labor Relations Board reforms if the measure were to reach the White House, his administration said in a statement.

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from Howl

I'm with you in Rockland
where we wake up electrified out of the coma
by our own souls' airplanes roaring over the
roof they've come to drop angelic bombs the
hospital illuminates itself imaginary walls collapse
O skinny legions run outside O starry
spangled shock of mercy the eternal war is
here O victory forget your underwear we're free
I'm with you in Rockland
in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea-
journey on the highway across America in tears
to the door of my cottage in the Western night

October 7 1955

"a remarkable collection of angelson one stage reading their poetry"
"I think Allen Ginsberg standing up there reading - putting himself on the line - was one of the two bravest things I've ever seen. Remember, it was '55. People had crew cuts, and they looked at you like you were misplaced cannon fodder. The country was being run by Luce publications. It was a dangerous, cold, ugly time, and it was scary. . .
In all our memories no one had been so outspoken in poetry before. We had gone beyond a point of no return. None of us wanted to go back to the grey, chill, militaristic silence, to the intellectual void - to the land without poetry - to the spiritual drabness. We wanted to make it new and we wanted to invent it and the process of it as we went into it. We wanted voice and we wanted vision."
-Michael McClure

Democrats…

Same as goddam fucking forever.
Over and over, in election year after election year, GE and MidTerms both… the Dems start to purr and preen, they stretch luxuriously - at just being TOLD they are going to win [...]
It never fails.
... in February of 2002, looking over the already joyless congressional stragglers willing to be drafted for duty… they barely dreamed, yet, it was even possible (Howard, a different person then, had not arrived to say it could be done)… but one thing was clear, we could not rely on the party to swing it. Could not. You could smell it, they would screw the deal. And I am not talking about Howard and primary issues here. By the end, that was a passing political story. Chuck it on the heap.
[...]
Upshot? The Republicans make it thru. They hold on.